Automobile visor pouch



March 30, 1954 E. J. STEELE AUTOMOBILE VISOR POUCH Filed Aug. l5, 1950 rl INVENTOR.

E Eon/ARD J. 5f 21e-ELE Z I g BY t l I 30 www f 9m 22 a vrrafrA/EysPatented Mar. 30, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE AUTOMOBILE VISORPOUCH Edward J. Steele, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Application August 15, 1950, Serial No. 179,600

3 Claims. (Cl. 224-42A2) This invention appertains to improvements inarticle holding attachments for sun visors of automobiles and has forits primary object to provide a transparent holder, adapted to beremovably sleeved over the free end of a sun visor or glare shield in amanner to be entirely supported thereby, and having a pocket or pouchformed thereon for the exposed storage of articles.

Another object of this invention is to provide an article retainer orholder formed as an elongated sleeve and adapted to be slipped over asun visor, both of the ends of the retainer being open so that it may beeasily disposed on either the left-hand or right-hand visor.

Another object of this invention is to provide a transparent open endedsleeve with a pouch formed by a coextensive transparent sheetsuperimposed longitudinally on the exterior of one of the sides of thesleeve and permanently secured at its ends and one of its side edges tothe sleeve, with fastening means associated with the opposing side edge.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of the interior of aconventional vehicle, with an article holder, constructed in accordancewith the principles of this invention, disposed on the sun visor;

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the article holder;

Figure 3 is a cross sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2, and,

Figure 4 is a detailed sectional view taken on line 4 4 of Figure 2.

The article holder I!) is formed from a suitable transparent plasticmaterial and is designed as a sleeve to be slipped over the sun visorI2, the latter being conventionally constructed and installed in thevehicle I4.

The holder Il] includes a pair of oblong horizontally elongatedrectangular side walls I6 and I8, which have their opposing longitudinalmarginal edges in superimposed relation and secured together by asuitable fastening means.

A pocket or pouch 20 is formed exteriorly of the side wall I8 and iscoextensive with the side walls. The lower edge '22 of the singletransparent panel or wall 24 dening with the side walls I8 the pouch 20is superimposed on the lower edges 26 and 28 of the side walls, theseedges being secured together by a running in and out sewing 29 andhaving a binding strip vSil secured in an encompassing manner thereon.

24 to form a closure means for the top of theA pouch. As illustrated, aslide fastener 34 is utilized, though, of course, any suitable type offastening means could be employed, such as snap fasteners, hooks or thelike. The slide fastener 34 is conventionally constructed and provided'with fabric strips 35 and 38, the lower edge of the strip 3G being matedwith the upper edge 38 of the panel 24 and stitched thereto by a runningstitch 4S, with a binding strip 42 encompassing the edges and joined bythe stitching 43] thereto.

The upper edge 44 of the strip 38 is superimposed on the joined upperedges 45 and 48 of the side walls I5 and I8, the edges being stitchedtogether and having a binding strip 50 stitched thereto.

In use, the article holder I 0 is adapted to be sleeved over the freeend of the visor I2, so that the holder may be circumposed on either thevisor above the steering wheel or the visor above the right hand side ofthe vehicle. The adjoining ends of the side walls I6 and I8 and of thepanel 24 are joined together by suitable stitching and encompassed by abinding strip 52, the binding strip 52 covering the adjacent ends of thebinding strips 30, 42 and 50.

The pouch or pocket, dened by the panel 24 and the side wall I8 ispreferably positioned on the inner side of the visor, as seen in Figurel, and various articles may be placed in the pouch and held therein inan exposed manner, as illustrated in Figure 1. The articles are securelyheld in the pouch by the fastener closing the upper end of the pouch.When the visor is swung up into an inoperative position, in adjacency tothe roof of the vehicle, the pouch is disposed out of view and the sidewall I5 thereof is brought into view. A map may be interposed betweenthe visor and the side wall I6 and held in a secure and exposed mannerfor the convenience of the driver, who can, at a glance, ascertain-hisroute.

While, the adjoining edges of the side walls and of the panel 24 areillustrated as stitched together, various other fastening means may beused, such as welding or gluing of the edges.

Having thus described this invention, what is claimed is:

1. In an article holder for an automobile visor, an elongated sleevehaving open ends and adapted to be sleeved endwise over the visor fromeither end of the visor, said sleeve comprising side walls forengagement with opposite sides of the visor,

Fastening means 32 iS DIOVided for the Dane] 55 a single panel overlyingthe exterior of one of said side walls and being coextensive therewith,said single panel having a longitudinal edge secured to and coextensivewith a longitudinal edge of said one side wall and end edges secured toand coextensive with the end edges of the said one side wall, the otherlongitudinal edge of the panel being coextensive with and laterallyspaced from the other longitudinal edge of the said one side wall, saidpanel being otherwise unconnected to said one side wall so as to definea pouch having an access opening extending along said other longitudinaledge of said one side wall, and closure means for the access openingextending along and secured to the said other longitudinal edge of saidone side wall and said other longitudinal edge of the panel.

2. In an article holder for an automobile visor, an elongated sleevehaving open Yends and adapted to sleeve onto a visor from eithery end ofa visor, said sleeve comprising similar` sidewalls for engaging oppositesides of a visor, said sidewalls having free end edges and opposedlongitudinal edges, a single panel overlying the outer side of oneofsaid sidewalls, .said panel being coeirtensive with said one sidewalland having free ends and opposed longitudinal edges, said panel beingnarrower than said one sidewall and having a free longitudinal edgelaterally inwardly spaced from the. related longitudinal side edge ofsaid one sidewall, said free longitudinal edge of the panel being devoidof direct connection with said one sidewall, securing means extendingalong and securing together the free end edges of both said one sidewalland said panel and longitudinal edges of said sidewall and said panel,and closure means comprising strip means .extending between and securedto said free longitudinal ledge of said panel and the relatedlongitudinal edge of said one sidewall and to the free edges of saidsidewall, said strip means being provided with a longitudinal slitshorter than said panel, said slit defining free edges, and fastenermeans separably connecting the last mentioned free edges.

3. In combination, an automobile visor having opposed sides, anelongated open-ended sleeve sleeved on said visor having sidewallsengaging the opposed sides of the visor, a panel overlying andsubstantially coextensive with one `of said sidewalls, said panel havinga longitudinal edge secured to said one sidewall along one longitudinaledge of said one sidewall, the other longitudinal edge ofr the panelbeing unsecured to said one sidewall, said panel having end edgessecured to saidone sidewall along end edges of said one sidewall, andclosure means extending along said other longitudinal edge of the paneland secured to said one sidewall, the space between said panel and saidone sidewall providing a storage pouch.

EDWARD J. STEELE.

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